Help Us Keep La Jolla Free!

Support Our Local Community and Stop Paid On-Street
Parking

Did
you know that special interests and the city of San Diego are working
quietly behind the scenes to bring paid on-street parking to
our local communities, including La Jolla?

Despite overwhelming opposition from residents, small business owners,
visitors, and consumers alike, the City is working with a small secretive
group that includes large restaurant owners and proprietors of paid
parking lots to tap into your change purse. Don't be fooled!

This isn't about finding a more convenient way to pay.

This isn't about finding "easier-to-enforce" technology.

This is about keeping the "camel's nose out from under the tent"!!!

If we allow even a single meter on our public streets
as part of the proposed "Pilot Parking Plan" more will soon follow.

The Parking Advisory Board needs to be disbanded because it
continues to ignore its charter! It promotes paid on-street parking as
a panacea while refusing to actually study the "parking problem."

PLJ Bows to Public Pressure

"To support the findings and recommendations of the Parking
Advisory Board based on the specifics of the Pilot Program passed in
September 2007."

Many have long suspected that Promote La Jolla would vote to send the
Pilot Plan to the City Council, without any changes, adjustments or
modifications. Most importantly, the prediction was that the "Pilot Plan",
calling for paid on-street parking throughout La Jolla, would not be
altered due to public comment. This is exactly what happened!

Promote La Jolla endorsed this proposal for paid on-street parking
in La Jolla, despite the fact that 90% of business members that they
"represent" are in opposition, not to mention the vast majority of La
Jolla's residents and visitors.

To our surprise, no doubt in response to increased public pressure—and
the efforts of NoPaidParking.Org and its many supporters, the Promote
La Jolla Board unanimously approved a motion to recind
its previous motion recommending paid on-street parking in La jolla to
the City Council. This happened during the Board's regularly scheduled
May 14, 2008 meeting

The PLJ Board did not replace this recinded motion with any other action.
This means that PLJ has simply withdrawn its April 9th action approving the
November 2007 "Pilot Parking Plan" (calling for paid on-street parking
in La Jolla) and sending the research and work of the La Jolla Community
Parking Disctrict Advisory Board to the City of San Diego.

No official announcement about the status of the La Jolla Community
Parking District Advisory Board itself was made at the meeting.
The Parking Advisory Board is still in existance—which
means that it can take action at any time. The same pro-paid-parking
people are in leadership positions—nothing has changed in that
regard. Both the La Jolla Community Planning Association and the La Jolla
Town Council have withdrawn their appointments to the Parking District
AdvisoryBoard—Promote La Jolla has not.

We will continue to monitor the situation and watch for any/all final
actions that signal an end to the issue of paid on-street parking in
La Jolla.

Check our events page for information on
upcoming public meetings on this topic. Let's make sure that the public
continues to appear in force to let everyone know that they think
about this!

Support us by attending the next meeting of the La Jolla
Community Parking District Advisory Board and telling them what the
public thinks about this nonsense.

Check our events page for the next meeting.
(On April 15, 2008 the San Diego City Council asked that the
regular meetings of this Board be suspended.)

Please help preserve La Jolla for everyone. We need a parking plan
that is community supported...and developed democratically in full
view of the public!

If you want more information about our fight against paid on-street
parking in our local communities, or want to help out, please contact
us at: